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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:58AM (#36996387)
> Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about if you think GPS “isn’t impactful enough”.

How informative of you.

GPS does things better but we can do generally the same things without it.

Don't think about what would happen if we ripped out all GPS functionality overnight, think about what would happen if we had a decade to implement replacements.

The loss of accuracy wouldn't be that important.

> the Haeber-Bosch proces

That one's pretty great, it's probably worth including.

> or the shipping container? “Oh it’s just a metal box”, a person who doesn’t understand it might say.

Hmm, focus on cargo ships and you can see a pretty rapid revolution, but in a wider lens maybe it was more of a broad evolution. I'm not sure.

But my point was that the list was too long, not that it didn't have any valid examples.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by kasey_junk on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:30AM (#36999055)
Cannot recommend The Box by Marc Levinson enough.

It goes in depth on the introduction of the shipping container and how revolutionary it was. There was also a fair bit of legal wrangling to make it possible as well.